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Burnout is a chronic feeling of exhaustion and stress that doesn’t go away for many workers. Workers everywhere, especially essential workers, have been forced to juggle many different hats at one to try to pull through the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the physical toll on employees, burnout is also costly problem for employers. Employers spending roughly $190 billion dollars per year in burnout-related healthcare costs each year. Furthermore, it has been estimated that workplace stress costs the US economy approximately 500 billion dollars a year in lost productivity. There are six aspects that make a workplace prone to burnout: demand overload, lack of control, insufficient reward, socially toxic workplace, lack of fairness, value conflicts. During this critical time period workplaces must remain vigilant in order to combat job burnout.